1. FLAX Building language material and creating exercises with FLAX
Shaoqun Wu and Ian H. Witten
Computer Science Department Waikato University New Zealand

2. FLAX Building language material and creating exercises with FLAX
To Moodle or not to Moodle?
Shaoqun Wu and Ian H. Witten
Computer Science Department Waikato University New Zealand

3. where’s NZ?

4. what’s FLAX?

5. agenda Installing FLAX from CD-ROM (?) FLAX in Moodle
Experiencing FLAX exercises
Scrambled Sentences
Word Guessing
Predicting Words and Phrases
Collocation Fill-in-blanks
Creating FLAX exercises (from existing material)
Making your own digital library collection

6. Digital libraries for language learning
Libraries contain the world’s best prose
Digital libraries: text can be extracted and manipulated automatically
Yields an unprecedented supply of practice exercises for students 6

7. Hundreds of thousands of documents
Language Activities: individual, competitive, collaborative
Digital libraries
Hundreds of thousands of documents
Millions of sentences
Mary
Joe

8. Installing FLAX from CD-ROM

9. Experiencing FLAX exercises
Scrambled Sentences
Word Guessing
Predicting Words and Phrases
Collocation Fill-in-blanks

10. Creating FLAX exercises
Scrambled Sentences
Word Guessing
Predicting Words and Phrases

11. Making your own digital library collection

12. FLAX Free open source software (GNU licensed) http://flax.nzdl.org

18. Designing an exercise

19. Designing an exercise

23. Designing a Word Guessing exercise

25. Designing a Predicting Words exercise

26. Choose collection (Moodle only)

27. My Collections

28. Create a new collection

29. Create a new collection